Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXL

Locals and Personals.

Amanzo Thomas, of Witoka, Minn., is visiting at M. F. Chilcote’s. Zepher Dress Ginghams at Ellis & Murray’s. Took out fqr bargains at Priest & Paxton’s. Rev. Pelley went to Monon, Tuesday, to attend a district ministerial conference. FARMERS. Sell your wheat and buy the Michigan Flour of Priest & Paxton. Wm. Kitely, an uncle, and Mrs. Kalb, a sister, from Sharon, Wis., are guests of Mrs. M. L. Tressler. The largest and cheapest line of embroideries ever shown in Rensselaer, at Ellis & Murray’s. Mrs. John Paxton is in Chicago visiting friends and relatives. She will be absent from home several weeks. The finest assortment of Carpets in toWn. is at A. Leopold’s. Call and see them, whether you wish to buy or not. '' ; lb'' *• \ Treasurer Washburn went down to Indianapolis Monday to make his spring settlement with the state treasurer. Our former townsman and excounty clerk, Charles 11. Price, has been elected a delegate to the constitutional convention, of South Dakota. Shoes for the infants, shoes for the children, shoes for-tlie boys und-g+i’ls, shoes for pap and mam at Hemphill & Honan’s. , Noble J. York, of Monon, has been appointed a mail agent, on the Monon Route from Michigan City to In dianapolis. The F. W. Baptist society will meet with Mrs. W. D. Robinson, Friday afternoon. It being the time to elect new officers, all members dre requested to be present. No lady can afford to miss calling on Ray Leopold and examining her stock of Dress Goods, Shawls, and ladies’ and children’s Hosiery, in all grades and at the lowest prices. The R. R. & St. L. railroad company has opened offices In the rooms recently accupied by" Zuckerman’s cigar factory, near the Republican office.—Winamac Republican. Grandmother Wright met with another accident, last Sunday. She made a misstep and fell with such force as to break off a piece of bone from one of her arms. It was ain exceedingly painful injury. Prof. L. H. Gould, the optician specialist, is at Dr. Washburn’s office, intending to remain until Saturday evening. It is worth a visit to his office to see his outfit of appliances and illustrations of 4he- eye, — The directors of the R. R. St. L. R. R. met in Winamac on Thurdsay and ratified the contract for building the new east and west road and work will begin at once.—Winamac Journal. Lot jumping in Leopold’s New Oklahoma still goes on briskly. To the names mentioned last week may be added C. A. Ball, who has boughti two lots, Chas. Paxton also two and Jesse Gwin, who is trying to content himself withone. A Fort Wayne paper is authority j for the statement that Mrs Emma I Molloy Barrett -writes from Washington Territory that she and her newest husband are about to leave America for St. Petersburg, where they propose to open a hotel.” Marriage licenses issued since last reported. ” j Clarence S. Lintner, | Elma A. Crawford. ( Lewis R. Newsom, ( Jane Smith. V Charles Worden, ~ ( Nora Gleason. Rev. Edward C. Bill, ]>art proprietor of the Fairbault, Minh.. Episcopal University, was in town Tuesday, looking after property interests, in this county. He is the only surviving son of Chas. E. Bill, of New York city, a wealthy man and at one time principal owner of the K N. A. &C. Railway. The present Mr. Bill owns property to the value of about 16,000 in this county, in lands and mortgages. Spring wraps at Ellis <fc Murray’s.

JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY. MAY 23, 1889.

A daughter at Geo. Worden’s last Friday. Fora good smoke try PneSt & Paxton’s three for a nickle. Go to Ellis & Murray’s for Rummer clothing. Hiram Day is in Indianapolis as Representative to the Grand Lodge of Iroquois Lodge, I. O. O. F. Never before were we so well prepared to give you bargains in boots and shoes. Hempheli. & Honan. J. M. Hopkins has sold his stock of furniture to Nowels & Son, who have transferred it to their furniture store across the street. Boots and Shoes can be obtained at Leopold’s for at least 25 per cento less than at any other house. Jul goods warranted. f The Rev. Samuel Godfrey has moved back from Chicago to Tippecanoe County, and accepted a pulpit charge, at Stockwell. A fine display of buggies at C. A. Roberts’ agricultural store. Call and examine and learn prices before pur- . chasing else whe re. Li—........... John Kohler fired a kiln of brick, last Thursday. It will probably be at least another week before the brick will be ready for the resumption of work on the new church. Kentland Gazette: The case of G. D. Kifer vs. Newton county has been changed to Jasper county. In this case Mr. Kifer demands of the county about S2OO for the care of a relative which "h edeclareswas"a pauper. The Town Board of Kentland has availed itself of the new law and raised the -rate on saloon licenses to $l5O. The Town Board of Rensselaer will probably do likewise before any new licenses are granted in the town. A Leopold has just received one of the finest stocks of Summer clothing, consisting of Alpaca coats and vests, of all colors. Trap-to-dae coats and vests; Seersucker and Seaside Linens. Call soon as they will be solcNjX such low prices as will astonish you. . Charles Worden, of Rensselaer, and Nora Gleason, of Francesville, were married at the latter place, in the Catholic church, last Monday morning. . Rev. Father Zumbudte performing the ceremony. The young couple have set up housekeeping in Dr. Loughridge’s tenant house, on Van Rensselaer street. Three vacancies have toccured .in the Rensselaer Fire Department, recently. T. J. McCoy was expelled for non-attendance and non-payment of fines; Lewis Day resigned, and the death of L. C. Grant makes the third. It was expected that at least a part of the vacancies would be filled at the meeting of the department, last evening. Dr. J. F. Tuttle, D. D., president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of the Rensselaer high school, at the Opera House,, last Sunday afternoon, ft was a very able and interesting address and attentively listened to by a very large audience. The doctor preached in the Presbyterian church in the evening of the same day. According to the Hammond Tribune, the little town of Whiting, in which the great oil refining works are to be located, is situated 4 or 5 miles east of Hammond. The state maps locate the place about 6 miles due north of Hammond, which is probably a mistake. The big pipe line constructed from the Ohio oil fields to Chicago, last year, will supply t he crude oil for the works. The graduating exercises of the class of 1889 of the Rensselaer High School, will be held at the Opera Honse, this (Thursday) evening. The graduates and their exercises will be as follows: Lerie O. Wilson, salutatory • and essay, “Pandora’s Box.” Walter L. Willey, oration, “Heroism.” Arthur S. Nowels, oration, “My Ideal of an American Hero.” Allie Kinney., essay, “A Visit io Venus and Mare.” Eddie Irwin, a history, “The Class of ’89.” Nellie G. Coen, essay and valedictory, “Know Thyself.”

Grandfather Ira Trussell is in very poor health, at his home north of town. His advanced age makes. his sickness a very serious matter. Wool Wanted.—For which the highest market price will be paid. See me before selling. J. R. Smith', The trial of Ida Peterson, wife of Jack McDowell, for bigamy, was to have come off in Kentland this week, and Clerk Irwin went over as a witness, but the prosecuting witness, Peterson, of Momence, 111., was not present and the case was dismissed. The School Roard has engaged for another year all the pressent force of teachers except Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Warren and Miss Hester, none of whom were applicants for another year. Miss Lizzie Faris, of Gillam tp., has been engaged to fill one of the vacancies, but the others are as yet, unfilled. Prof. Reubelt placed tickets for the electrical entertainment in the hands of his pupils, for sale, and offered a prize of a gbbd book to the one selling the largest number of tickets. Lewis Hipriiltem the onearmed boy, took the prize, with the sale of 45 tickets. His nearest competitor was Miss Lerie Wilson, with a sale of 10 tickets. The Doctors Loughridge removed an encephaloid cancer from the hand Qf Mrs. Britton, of Barkley tp., last Sunday? In so doing it was necessary to remove the entire thumb clear down to the third joint. It was a severe and difficult operation, more so than would have been an amputation of the entire hand. To control the bleeding was especially difficult. Mr. Zack Spitler was in town last Thursday with his head full of railroad talk. Uncle Zack lives a mile or so from Brook, on the Coal Road, and his idea is to induce the proposed R. R. & St. L. to take a straight shoot for Gillman, 111., its western objective point, after it leaves Rensselaer. In that case it would cross the Coal Road branch near or upon Uncle Zack’s farm, and the crossmg would be a fine place to build up a new town, and the future county seat of Newton county. Judge Morgan had a case, in the police court, Monday afternoon. It was an assault and battery case, and from Nubbin Ridge, as usual. Wm. S. Durant and John Shrorer, two near neighbors, had a scrapping match, last Saturday, in which Shroror was pretty badly worsted, and “he therefore appealed to the law for redress. Durant was assessed the usual $1 fine with the usual big costs annexed; and took the usual stay for 90 days and furnished the usual security in the person of Michael O. Halloran. A young boy threw a stone and broke ohe of the globes of the electric street lights, Tuesday night. Mr. Ferguson followed the matter up and ; found out who the boy was, but it being the first offense he let the matter drop, by the boy’s father paying for the lamp and repremanding the boy. In the future, however, it is his intention to prosecute every person who maliciously destroys any of .the projiefety of theeleciric light com pany, to the extent of the law; and mischieviously inclined boys and older persons will do well to give heed to this warning. PA little paragraph which is floating around among our exchanges and which was reproduced in last week’s IlErtnftAcAx to the effect tliat the Postmaster General had issued an order that letters not stamped should be forwarded to the persons addressed, of whom the postage would be collected, seems to have been an error. It probably grew out of an order directed that special delivery letters, with the 10 cent stamp on, but not the additional two center, as required, slia.ll be forwarded and the unpaid postage be collected of the recipient This at least is the opinion of Postmaster Bates, who is very careful to keep himself posted on all new rulings of the Department

No -business man -or citizen who : fails to attend the meeting at the courthouse, to-morrow evening, to make final arrangements-for tlie Fourth of July celebration, can have any right to complain if the celebration is not conducted in a manner to suit his ideas. All should turn out and do their part towards making the celebration satisfactory to all. R. S. Dwiggins received a telegram last Saturday, from his son Elmer, at San Felipe, Mexico, in which the new leaching process, in the Republic mine, was stated to be an entire success. : This, means a practical increase in the capacity of the mine, to" nearly treble its present capacity without any additional outlay •worth mentioning. Mr. Dwiggins states tliat it also means that the mine will begin to pay dividends a year sooner than it could had the leaching process proved a failure. Preparations are now Being made for the arc lights, by the electric light company. The current for these arc lights will be supplied by a special ‘ dynamo, of smaller size, and which has already been received. Its capacity will be for six lights. At present arrangements, one of these will be located over the intersection of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, and‘another, over Washington and Front streets. One will be in Hemphill <fc Honan’s store and one in GreenNßiniard room. The locations of the other two have not yet been decided upon. The Monon company paid over to Hammond Austin, last Tuesday, $4,000 in good cash, that being the amount of the judgment and accrued interest in the case of Fidelia J. Bennett, now Mrs. Clemens, against the company, for the death of her former husband, Wm. Bennett, a brakeman, who was killed at La Cross, in November, 1883. Suit was brought in this county, taken to Benton on a change of venue, where a judgment for $3,500 was obtained. The inevitable appeal to the Supreme Court followed, which tribunal affirmed the judgment last January. A young man from Gillam, Mr. Comer by name, called upon us Tues-1 day and presented us a half-pint bot-! tie of the product of Mr. Campbell’s I oil well, in that township. The well I is a hundred feet deep and is situated about a mile from J. R. Guild’s gas well. The oil is obtained by skimming it from the surface of water pumped from the well, a considerable quantity being thus obtainable from every bucketful of water. The oil I is black and heavy and a good quality ' of lubricating oil, although perhaps | a little too heavy and sticky. In; reference to the Guild gas well, Mr.l Comer tells us that it still gushes in undiminished volume, and that Mr. Guild was now utilizing a portion of the flow by using it in his kitchen stove. ———- The entertainment at the Opera House, last Friday evening, given by Prof. Reubelt and the mem here of the senior class of the high school, was a novel and instructive affair. By means of the large and well selected philosophical apparatus belonging to the school, helped out by a very large and generous loan from a dealer in such apparatus, in Chicago, a large nttmber of striking and beautiful experiments were perform ed, illustrative of the wonders of natural philosophy, chemistry, and especially of that wonderful and subtle force, electricity. The experiments were introduced and interspersed by short essays, explanatory of the subj ject matters of the entertainment, by I each of the six members of the senior class. The attendance at the entertainment was very satisfactory, all the reserved seats Wing filled, and large numbers' in the other portions of the halL The gross receipts from the sale of tickets were apont SSO. The combined net receipts of this entertainment and of the preceding week will add from $75 to SBS to the library and laboratory fund of the school. 1 ; Everything in men’s and boy’s summer clothing at Ellis & Murray’s.

PREPARING TO CELEBRATE.

But Another Meeting Must Be Held. A public meeting was held in the court house, on Wednesday evening of last week, for the purpose of taking the preliminary steps for a Fourth of July celebration in Rensselaer. G. E. Marshall was chosen president of .the.meetingand J. H. Ellis secretary. The only action taken at the meeting was the appointment of a committee on finance, whose duty it should be to canvass the town for subscriptions and to report the amount subscribed at a future meeting. The committee was appointed as follows: A. Leopold, E. P. Honan, C. D. Nowels. Amzi Laßue, and Norman Warner. A second meeting was held last Tuesday’ evening at which the chairman of the committee, Mr. Leopold, reported that a sufficient sum had b een subscribed to furnish the financial backing for the celebration. 0 w ing to the small attendance at this m eeting no actionjvas taken except the appointment of another meeting for Friday evening. If the celebration is to be a success it will be necessary to take important and decisive action at this coming meeting and every public spirited citizen should make it a special point to be present.

RAIL ROAD NEWS.

Last Thursday was the appointed time for the adjourned meeting of the stockholders and directors of the Rochester, Rensselaer <fc St. Louis Railroad Company, at Winamac. Unforseen contingences prevented the attendance of any representative from Rensselaer but the principal facts as to what was accomplished at the meeting will be found in the subjoined extracts from the Winamac Republican: - Yesterday the directors of the Rochester, Rensselaer & St. , Louis Railroad Company met in the company’s rooms in Keller block to transact business. The meeting was to have been held last Tuesday, bit some of the directors could not be present. An election was held, at which all I the old officers of the company were Ire-elected except Hazen. W. C. I Bennett was chosen in his stead. I Contracts were ratified, and it is | understood tliat arrangements were • made to survey from Winamac to Kewanna and thence to Rensselaer. Just at present the officers have very little to say to the public on the railroad question. John Martindale,TKewtbhTtp., went I to Indianapolis Monday, in answer to j a summons requiring him to serve as la juror, in the United .States District [Court. It is an inconvenient time I for him to leave his farm, but like ; the. good citizen that he is, he packed his grip and went without complaining.

A Family Affair.

Lafayette Courier. In the matter of the ownership of a portion of the Stockton groceiy stock in West Lafayette, under advisement by Judge Everett, of the .Superior Court, one third of said stock was Thursday awarded to Frank Stockton, a son of Wm. S. Stockton, Mrs. Stockton having heretofore been awarded all the real estate in dispute, and two-thuds of the grocery stock. I The grocery stock was to-day purchased by It. B. Lank, and removed to his grocery store at Sheldon, Ills. Thus ends a case which has long been coming to a focus, has attracted unusual attention and has been shrouded in considerable mystery.

Home Wanted for a Boy.

A permanent home is wanted for an eight year old motherless boy. Is a good, obedient child, and perfectly strong apd healthy. Address: James Brown, Morocco, Newton Co. Ind.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

T. M. Coghill. Miss Nina Burns. Joseph Pillars. Miss Maud Fields. Mary Johnson. RobL A. Williams. Chris. Wenger. T. R. Whitney. r George Sidney. Wm. M. or Heiss Johnston. For a first class smoke go to Ed. Parcells’ barber shop. He makes a specialty of the Mascott and K. of P. Every mother should, see the stock of boys* suits at Ellis & Murray’s.

A. LEOPOLD is doingaland-oflice business, but not alone in selling lots in Leopold's {Hew Oklahoma) but also in selling goods. Last Saturday was a big day for him, and all on account of his immense slock of DRESS GOODS, CARDETS, CLOTHING, BOOTS d SHOES, which are sold al lower prices than other houses can buy them for; besides good treatment and. very literal terms. Come along, friends, and get lots of good goods, for very little money. It is impossible for any other house to undersell him.

NEWS FROM REMINGTON.

Some urchins without the fear of the Lord or the law before their Leyes,..forced their way into the 1 high school building and destroyed some of the school property. The organ, the new library, and the clock in Mr. Thomas’ room suffered most from the depredations of the little vandals. ’' It is rumored that several whitecap notices have been received by prominent citizens, warning them that unless certain conditions are complied with, the torch will be applied. Mr. Robert Parker returned last Friday from a pleasant visit in Denver, Col., and other places in the west His daughter, Mabel, who accompanied him, will remain during a part of the summer. The underground foundations for the new school house are being put in rapidly. A large force of workmen are employed and it will not be long until the brick masons are at work. Public interest seems to center in the new school house. A team belonging to Mr. McMichaels started on a home run last Saturday, doing considerable damage to the wagon but fortunately no one was hurt Miss Anna Draper, who has been teaching in Union township during the past winter and spring, returned home last Saturday-! • John Allman is now occupying the house lately vacated by A. R. Opdycke, Mr. and Mr. Opdycke having taken board with Mr. and Mrs. Little. Dr. D. H. Patton is enlarging and beautifying his dwelling, and the grounds surrounding it. Messrs J. Kenyon and Charles Fisher were driving out of town last Thursday with a spirited team belonging to the former, when the team became frightened and unmanagable throwing both gentlemen out of the buggy. Mr. Kenyon was considerably bruised about the head and face and Mr. Fisher sustained a badly broken leg.* He is cared for by Dr. Landon and the comrades of the G. A. B. Post, of which he is a member. The -‘Deestrict Skule” will open Friday night at Durand’s Hall. Admission, 15, 25 and 30 cents. John A. Clark and wife will make an extended western tout beI fore returning to Florida. They left for Denver, Col., last Tuesday. Two more Remington boys, Frank Hardy and Lee Royalty, have left ns to seek their fortunes in city of Chicago. The former left on Thursday last, having found employment in the gasoline stove works. The latter left on Monday night Both boys will be missed especially in musical circles and both will probably be successful in their new venture. , . •■5 Rkmikotomiam.

We still continue to make best cabinet photos at 12.50 per dozen. J. C. Wl! LIAMS Clothing sold on time at A. Leopold’s.

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